Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-12

CO1ueCIluS liDE between the consumer
ard producer, between city and country,
between state and state; aye, between
continent and continent, and with & pur-
pose TO make it Of the highest possible
benefit to both the communities between
which we stand.
Ii farmers we can work, not only to
get money for cur produce, but reslizing
that agriculture is at the base of all, that
the willing earth only waits
our intelligent approsch to respond more
grsndiy thsn she ever has, that God has
given US & power only second to that Of
creation, ior the mobilization and I'M
provement OF fruits and grains, sud that
our farms, by wise study, may be made
! iNeXh2ustiOle sources ot rich returns in
stead of worn out lands. We may work
with the purpose to make our agriculture
: Z blessing 10 the present and 10 future
generations.
ii mechanics, we can work, not for
wages alone, but making our work the
very best we can 90, initiating the great
| l25Orer, who raisled the sting Qf & bee,
the eye of fly; ray, the proboscis Il an
2nimelcu.e 50 perfectly, that the most
powerful microscope can detect no flaw
or Flemish. We cen have a purpose to
do the best work that Can be done in our
specially. And so, through all the de-
partments of active life, for l may not
dwell longer on details, We may give
| dignity to our employment by noble
and worthy purpose. The old, trite
saying, becomes luminous Tor US all from
tais point OF view,
Horror and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part; there ali the honor lies"
What thy hand hndeth TO do, do with
s!L thy skill, With 81! thy might, making
conscience and honor cOnst.tu. MS OF all
work done,
This is the secret OF true success.
Ever endeavor 10 be the best worker in
your business, remembering what some
one has SAID that 'thare IS always room
in The upper stories Of every business, "
End remembering also Miss Edgew0rth's
saying, that 'fhe who sims at star, even
if he misses, will shoot higher than he
who aims at q gooseDerry bush!"
But this is 10 be done by CoLse-
Grafton to the duty that is just st hand.
All lofty castles ere reached by careful
climbing Chateaus in the air, even II
they could be reached by balloons, would
prove TO be as unsubstantisl IS the ele-
ment in which they hang. Il Is step by
step that we must climb up TO the life
structures which are worth having when
we attain them.
Many waste time and opportunity in
seeking for the impossible, or even in
seeking by false methods for the posi-
bic. Just as some buy lottery tickets
that they msy be rich; the most unlikely
method that could be adopted.
Like the dog with the bone, who saw
his rejection in the clear brook, they
drop the real for the unreal They will
not do what they can, because they can
rot do what they wish. They spend lie
in unmeGniug rtveries. in complaining
desires that they might have
had wider sphere, 9 better
opportunity, in dazzling dreams
of what they would have done if they had
hsd this, or that, or the other; in com
plsints Of the hardness of fate, or the
want Of appreciation of their fellowmen.
It is al the merest pulling childish
ness. II you are only q WOOds2Wyer, sew
your wood true and pile it straight, and il
God has anything else for you TO do he
knows where you live. 1t is ss honorable
TO be an honest woodsaWyer as anything
else, If that is the extent of your capacity
snd opportunity.
All kinds of men labor on a grand edi-
fee. Some dig the cellar, some Icy the
massive foundations, some build the ma
sorry of the walls. Then the carpenter,
the plasterer, the painter, the uph0lsterer,
each in turn make his contribution to the
harmonious whole. TIE man who Dug
and he who laid the cellar stones, If they
did the best they could, were as merlto-
rious as he who iresc9ed the walls or up
holstered .the windows or carved the
delicate rolutes Of the Grecian capitals
II the foundations ere defective down
comes the house. Where shall the fresco
painter show his art, if there ere no ma
sons to build walls? Where shall states
men find find nations to guide, il there
are 10 sturdy yeomen:end Workmen to
form them?
1t is we'll to have ambition for wide
sphere and great doing, but it must not
interfere with present duty. When a ship
sets sail from New York, her captain ex-
poets her to breast the waves of the
mighty ocean; bus first she sails down
the placid river and then into the broad
ening and roughenirg bay, then through
the narroWe, then out into the outer bsy,
and then at Sandy Hook she drops her
pilot and shoots of across the trackless
deep. She could reach the ocean only
through the narrows.
Hear, I beseech you, my parable, and
learn its lesson.
If swe fill our present sphere tull
it will surely widen. Those with pur-
pose in life and a laudable ambition, as 8
rule, reach the place for which they are
fitted. There are not half as many unsp
precisted geniu5es in the world as the
selt-estimsting genius supposes. Men
ss q rule, are like water, they find their
level, but it is in the same way, by seek
ing 1t.
IL these remarks an anxious to steer
you safely between Scylls and Chsrybdis,
between an ignoble satisfaction witt
present ettainments and merely sensua
Qualifications, which is fatal to ell noble
advance and high achievement on the one
hand snd an simless, winning and pur.
poseless dissatisfaction with the sur
roundings and opportunities OF the pres
ent thai paralyzes present effort and lay:
ne stepping stone to the shores OF Lofty
aud useful future.
But l should be untrue to you, and
.. untrue to myself, should l couhne the
horizon OF thought within the limits o.